The lights came back on at about midnight. And the National Park Service threw cold water on those theories Wednesday morning, telling The Washington Post that the outage was related to ongoing work on a backup generator for Liberty Island. A spokesperson for NPS told the outlet that the staff had been prepared for an outage later in the week but that the setting of the timer for the lighting system had been changed. He insisted that the new timing was just a coincidence and "not in any way" related to the Day Without a Woman.

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